Overview - Snapdragon 860 Vs Snapdragon 888

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 860 vs Snapdragon 888 SoCs by Qualcomm. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 8-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 860 29
Snapdragon 888 43
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 860 24
Snapdragon 888 38
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 860 75
Snapdragon 888 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 860 43
Snapdragon 888 54
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

  • Snapdragon 860 has 4.23% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 (2960 vs 2840 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

  • Snapdragon 888 has 24.44% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (840 vs 675 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 860 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 has 28.57% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 860 (5 vs 7 nm).
  • Snapdragon 888 has 74.26% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 860 (808 K vs 464 K ).
  • Snapdragon 888 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
  • Snapdragon 888 Support 50.01% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 860 (51.2 vs 34.13 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 744
Snapdragon 888 1126

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 860 2616
Snapdragon 888 3681

Image compression

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Snapdragon 860 142.85
Snapdragon 888 177.1

Face detection

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Snapdragon 860 20.3
Snapdragon 888 26.5

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 860 44.55
Snapdragon 888 67.7

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 860 46.35
Snapdragon 888 59.9

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 860 22.85
Snapdragon 888 37.5

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 860 1.65
Snapdragon 888 3.96

SQLite

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Snapdragon 860 777.9
Snapdragon 888 1060

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 FPS
Stability 91%

Graphics test 30 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution QHD @ 60Hz 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR HDR10+ Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, HDR10
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

78%
Turbo Clock Speed

2960 MHz

75%
Turbo Clock Speed

2840 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
    1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.1-A ARMv8.4-A
  • L1 cache - 512 KB
  • L2 cache - 1 MB
  • L3 cache 2 MB 4 MB
  • Process 7 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 640 Adreno 660
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 675 MHz 840 MHz
  • Execution units 2 2
  • Shading units 384 512
  • FLOPS 1037 Gigaflops 1720 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

memory-frequency

Memory frequency

2133 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

3200 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

34.13 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

16 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

24 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 4 x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 690 Hexagon 780
  • Storage type EMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 4K at 120FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 8K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

4G Speed
  • 2000 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 316 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 2500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 316 Mbps
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 5000 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 7500 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 3000 Mbps
    Upload Speed

  • Modem X24 LTE, X50 5G X60
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 20 LTE Cat. 22
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

CPU
29%
GPU
24%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

CPU
43%
GPU
38%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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